Anne Hunter, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-73575-6
A huge, yellow harvest moon puts Possum in a celebratory mood. But after he festoons the grass with lanterns and berries, his plans for an impromptu bash seem to be dashed when the usual nightlife crowd turns into party poopers. The crickets are all
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Anne Hunter. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-58259-0
In a lullaby-like outing that celebrates interconnectedness, a boy slumbers at dusk, while the breeze “carries the song/ of crickets” into his bedroom. Outside his window, animals prepare for night in a hilly meadowland overlooking the bay. Hunter (L
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Anne Hunter. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-89891-2
When Possum and his three children lose their brush pile home during a storm, they go searching for a new one. Carrying the babies on his back, Possum—who demonstrates emotions of fear, surprise, and uncertainty through his widening eyes—meets other
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Anne Hunter, Author, Anne Hunter, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-91824-1
By the light of the final full moon of autumn, Possum kicks off a celebration with his friends. PW called it ""a merry illumination of the moon-glowing, green-growing, bug-buzzing profusion of a seasonal last hurrah."" Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Anne Hunter, Author, Anne Hunter, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-84631-5
The endearing pin-eyed, pointy-nosed possum introduced in Hunter's debut, Possum's Harvest Moon, returns to inaugurate the spring in this charming tale. An infernal racket has awakened nature's creatures from their winter hibernation, and Possum,...
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Anne Hunter. Tundra, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6498-4
“Have you seen Baby, Mama Fox?” Thus begins a search (and a sly introduction to prepositions) that leads Papa Fox to search up in a tree, inside a log, over a hill, down a hole, under some water, and around the bend, encountering a number of un-foxli
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Anne Hunter. Tundra, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6909-5
The gift of gab proves deeply funny in Hunter’s (Where’s Baby?) earnest portrait of early language acquisition. Baby Mouse starts out as a quiet infant, but after the diminutive mammal utters a first word, then a second, language flows suddenly and...
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Anne Hunter. Tundra, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6911-8
Hunter’s humorous look at youthful energy kicks off in a forest where not everyone is a morning creature. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed absolutely describes Baby Squirrel, who comes in hot like clockwork each morning, exuberantly greeting the day—and
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